by bbeckel | Sep 11, 2013 | Korea
We decided to have a little picnic on the beach one night after school. We got a recommendation on where to go, and I packed up the traditional Korean picnic food – kimbap. Kimbap (or Gimbap, depending on how you anglicize the Korean characters) is just the...
by bbeckel | Sep 10, 2013 | Korea, Recipes
So I’ve been watching Korean cooking YouTube instructionals during the day. There are a few I really like – a mom who sends her daughters recipes so they can carry on their heritage, the young Korean-American mom who’s son runs around in the...
by bbeckel | Sep 9, 2013 | Korea
We’ve spent a couple nights in the last week trying some of the local cuisine with some of the other teachers. Both were different than expected, and we’re trying to learn to stop expecting, and just experience! On Wednesday night, we told another teaching...
by bbeckel | Sep 5, 2013 | Korea
Date envelope #2 gave us a map and some cash to help us get to one of the many Jeju Olle trails – a major network of more than 20 individual routes connected back-to-back to completely circle the island. We’re hoping to get through all the trails before we...
by bbeckel | Sep 3, 2013 | Korea, Recipes
Welcome to my first recipe post! Some of you have asked for some sharing of what I’m learning about Korean cooking. So far I’ve gotten some inspiration from places we’ve eaten out, from local and longer-term staff that have been here a while, and...
